Government shutdown, but more and more lawmakers are making another offer in the meantime. Danielle leigh joins us on capitol hill with that. Reporter good morning. So many federal workers arent getting paid so we. Ed to find out what are lawmakers while the shutdown continues. At least 108 of them have said they will go without pay as long as the shutdown continues. 56 republicans, 52 democrats and among those are five lawmakers from maryland and virginia. One is eric cantor is refusing pay. Also john delaney says hes going to donate his pay to charity. Tim kain is asking his salary be withheld. Now if youre wondering why with the shutdown wasnt their salary removed, they are paid by mandatory funds, not discretionary funds. Live in capitol hill, im danielle leigh, back to you. 4 32. Leaders at university of District Of Columbia is trying to come up with a contingency plan. They held an emergency meeting last night. They received federal funding. Its the only Public University in the
It will only run six car trains for the time being. The Transit Agency usually mixes in some car trains. This is a 10 reduction in capacity during rush hours. Business is down 22 because of the shutdown. You wont notice any differences if you take them to work this morning. Those Rail Services are keeping their current schedules through the endover the week. They will let riders know if they will operate an s schedule tomorrow. Were following every development. The house convening at 10 00 this morning. The senate convenes at 10 30. We have not heard whether president obama plans to meet again with congressional leaders. Theres little promise for progress on the hill this morning. An hourlong meeting of leaders and the president ended with frustration. Richard jordan is on the National Mall this morning with more on what we can expect today on capitol hill. Reporter things are too tense here. But there will be some steps made in congress in the house. Lawmakers will be looking at indiv
Chance to save them if you hose the frost off early in the morning before it burns the plants. Get the ice off your plants as quickly as possible if you didnt get a chance to go out and cover them. Its not the best method, but its a backup plan. Reporter while the cold weather has gardeners scrambling, it also put people in the holiday spirit. Business reporter now, i also talked with the owner of the arden lane nursery in livermore. She says she fights the frost with a little holiday cheer. She throws on oldfashioned c77 lights on to her favorite plants because that raises the temperatures a few degrees to save them from the frost. By the way, we called the local Hardware Store to know whether or not you should be worried about your pipes. You dont need to worry about exposed pipes until it gets to about 20 degrees then when that happens well surely be crying to jeff ranieri about that. We have more tips on nbcbayarea. Com about the gardening as well as the shelters that are now open
If we cant get underneath, its going to smolder aware in here. Reporter dave can see the demolition from across the street. Yesterday, he ran from flames roaring through the construction site. Theres this huge flame. You can feel the heat. Reporter no one in the apartments were allowed to spend the night at home, while the fire raged. We are very grateful to the firemen. They did a great job. Reporter People Living in apartments who had windows blown out in 2 heat of the fire are not allowed home. They are not talking with building managers about relocating. Investigators are searching for the cause of the fire, but from a distance, because its too dangerous to enter the building. Were taking some pictures of the area where we believe the fire started. Reporter welding work is the focus of the investigation. Tonight, crews say they expect to remain here through the night and much of tomorrow. Reporting live in San Francisco, jean elle, nbc bay area news. Thank you, jean. Its been nearl
24 hours and say all that water is further weakening the building heres a look at whats going on tonight, as well as a unique perspective on the flames and the aftermath. We watched as crews work to demolish this building. You can see where theyve pushed part of the building in on itself and used big heavy machinery to push it in word rather than have a collapse outward. If you look you can see the smoke you are talking about how this scene is still smoldering. Fire fighters still on scene making sure none of the hotspots flareup. Crusade there is no official word how this fire started in the first place. Crews begin demolishing the remains of the Apartment Building that burned spectacularly yesterday here evening. Fire officials will remain on scene as the demolition continues. We still have hotspots because of the collapse and its hard to get water to the source of a hotspot. We are still surrounding it and as of flares up with the water on and move to another spot and put out anothe